stateofiction's reviews
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everyone on this earth: this book is so gruesome beware
me: yeah whatever
me, while reading: :o

I have no idea how to rate this so I won't. This book is not bad at all, but the content within is so gruesome. I prefer to read books within three days. However, this book had so much upsetting content that I could only read a few pages at a time. This took me a week.

moral of the story, if you're skeptical about this "gruesome" book, just know it's earned that title. Karin Slaughter I'm worried about you!

reading this amidst applying and searching for graduate schools and seriously looking about where I'm going to live when I graduate is surreal

I do typically rate memoirs but I think I'm going to leave this one unrated. on one hand, she's been through so much and is trying to do a lot of good. on the other hand she's done so much bad and while she did apologize in the book, it just doesn't seem like enough. and even now, she's bragging about her NFTs and her venture capitalist husband and being besties with the founder of Dolls Kill. but these things I don't like are about her as a person and it doesn't seem fair to rate the book in that way

something I really did like about this is how clear her voice was. while I am like 100% sure there is a ghost writer involved in this based on how eloquent a lot of this was, and certain words and descriptors used. not saying she can't be smart. I am saying she did not receive a high school education. if you want more on that read Part 2 after reading trigger warnings including child abuse, sexual abuse, and more.

anyway back to her voice. it was so clear that even though I didn't listen to the audiobook (I imagine she narrates?), it really felt like she was telling me her story herself. there are so many little jokes that give this memoir a very personal feel to it.

another little thing I liked was every time she established the year we were in, she would tell us the movies, songs, and tech that was out at the time to really transport you back if you were sentient then.

a middle grade that's anti-cop and pro-immigration? having a fantastic time

this was such a fun time. I for some reason thought this was adult and not YA when I started reading this, but I'm actually glad it wasn't. this was the perfect holiday romance to squeeze in right before they end

this was really cute! I feel like a lot of times with novellas/short stories I just feel like the story would be better if it were longer and more developed, but this was really well done! the story felt the perfect length, it was really cute, and it was a fun short read on a lunch break

this is TikTok romantasy at it's finest....

and you know what I had a blast

Louise and the Nutcracker are toxic as fuck but that just adds to the tiktokiness of it all

this really and truly is not the worst thing I've ever read. it's a cute little holiday romance, what else do you want? sure you maybe want it to be less than 400 pages, and for that criticism I agree.

now there is a 10 page sex scene. and it is incredibly boring. and almost every intimate scene is from his pov. but other than that it's cute and fun